The weather is lovely at the moment but, no doubt it won't last and we'll be into Autumn before too long. I love Autumn though - beautiful colours and light.
Formerly Skipton Branch of the Embroiderers' Guild. For anyone interested in textile art and embroidery.
Thursday 26 August 2021
A few photos and future plans.
Saturday 14 August 2021
August round up
We are having a meeting Monday 16th; we don't normally have an August meeting but given the lack of face to face get togethers over the last year we decided it would be a good idea. That said, I'm not sure how many people will be there as a good few of us are escaping and visiting family and friends or holidaying now we can; anyway, hope those who are able to attend have a good chat and we'll see each other in September at our AGM where we will officially constitute our ISG.
Plans are progressing for our Yarndale stand - watch this space!
The programme is progressing too and looking a lot healthier! Have a look on the tab.
In case you needed another excuse...
Wednesday 4 August 2021
A bit of bling
Just keeping up with these tags is a challenge! This week's involved a bit of bling and because I forgot, last week's brooches.
As far as brooches are concerned Claire and I have been working on some ideas for brooches to sell as little kits at Yarndale; if you want a sneaky peak there are two free tutorials in links on the Resources tab that go with our kits. As we are now an independent stitch group and our funds from our old branch were 'acquired' by Embroiderers' Guild head office we are a bit short in the funds department (let's not get into the ins and outs of HO gathering branch monies), so we decided a bit of fund raising was in order. Yarndale will be our first outing and we will have the brooch kits, a little fabric book kit and some big lucky dip bundles of fabric and trimmings on sale - more details to follow. There will be more free tutorials in our Resources to give some ideas; we hope you'll all take advantage of them.
Online courses
Here's another example form one of our members, Lynda, of a Zara Day online course she's been on. This one was another coral based one but previously members have enjoyed other courses Zara has done.
Sunday 25 July 2021
Reasons to buy fabric 5 AND threads!
So, I'm not a sun worshipper, it's been way too hot for my liking I have to say, although not too hot for stitching. My friends from the group think I'm a bad influence because I keep tempting them with the threads I've been buying - it's the heat - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.😂
I'm a little bit addicted to Paint-Box Threads and got a bit carried away (not for the first time!):